Anthologies

Short Stories

"Gods of the Sea" (Combat Monsters 2025) "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" (Back in Black 2024) "Ninja Echo Charlie Mike" (Joe Ledger: Unbreakable 2023) "The Agency of Modern Kunoichi" (Unquiet Spirits 2023) "Missing on Kaua‘i" (Crime Hits Home 2022) "Empty Nest" (Surviving Tomorrow 2020) "Amelia Delia Lee" (Weird Tales Magazine #363 2019) "Life After Breath" (Running Wild Short Stories Volume Two 2018) "Resistant" (Never Fear: The Apocalypse 2017) "Ace of Wands (Never Fear: The Tarot 2016)

Topics

Craft, Subject Expertise, The Business of Writing

Public Speaking Details

Write Fights and Action Readers Can Feel 15 Tips for Writing a Cinematic Novel 4-Act Structure for Outlining a Novel Writing Believable Dialogue Performing Secrets for Reading Your Own Work Developing Genuine and Multifaceted Characters

Biography

Tori Eldridge is the bestselling author of KAUA‘I STORM (Ranger Makalani Pahukula Mystery), DANCE AMONG THE FLAMES, and the Lily Wong thrillers—THE NINJA DAUGHTER, THE NINJA’S BLADE, THE NINJA BETRAYED, and THE NINJA’S OATH. She has been nominated for Anthony (2x), Lefty and Macavity Awards, is an Academy Nicholl Fellowship semifinalist, and won the 2021 Crimson Scribe Award for Best Book of the Year. Born and raised in Honolulu of Hawaiian, Chinese, Norwegian descent, Tori has settled in Portland, Oregon, where her mo‘opuna (grandchildren) live. Before writing, she performed on Broadway, television, and film; and holds a 5th degree black belt in To-Shin Do ninja martial arts. Her next Ranger Makalani Pahukula Mystery, HAWAI‘I RAGE, is set to release May 19, 2026.